There is no information supporting fertilization for persimmon crop as far as the Brazilian literature is concerned. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to study the accumulation of dry mass and micronutrient in organs that compounds the productive branch, during phenological growth stages of persimmon cv. Giombo, and to quantify the nutrient requirement for production. The study was carried out in an orchard located in Faxinal-PR. The spacing between plants was 6 x 7 meters. The sampling of fruiting branches started three weeks after budding had begun and this procedure was repeated after every three weeks during 45 weeks. Chemical analyses of the samples were performed and nutrients extractions during phenological growth stages were determinate. The total of macronutrients removed by fruit harvest was 25.47; 5.72; 51.53; 6.76; 2.79 and 5.09 kg per hectare, respectively for N, P, K, Ca, Mg and S. The nutrient extraction by pruning branches for phytosanitary control was 2.1; 0.3; 1.1; 5.8; 0.5 and 0.4 kg per hectare of N, P, K, Ca, Mg and S. The productivity was 27.7 ton of fruits per hectare.
Diospyros kaki L.; nutrient accumulation; fertilization
